Tag: abortion
Supreme Court preserves nationwide access to abortion pill mifepristone by mail
The justices' decision will block a previous ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which would require patients to obtain the medication only in-person from a physician.
A ‘striking’ trend: After Texas banned abortion, more women nearly bled...
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
SCOTUS opinion says states can block Medicaid money for health services...
Justice Neil Gorsuch and five other justices found that "while Medicaid law allows people choose their own provider, that does not make it a right enforceable in court in the case."
Three months after Missouri voted to make abortion legal, access is...
Are anti-abortion lawmakers strategizing to prevent a return of abortion services?
Maryland enshrines abortion rights in Constitution after overwhelming voter approval
Maryland becomes a leader in reproductive rights by enshrining abortion access in its constitution.
Reproductive justice organizers in the South are finding new ways to...
A part of the reproductive justice framework and the driving force is to keep families together, independent of government control.
A third woman died under Texas’ abortion ban. Doctors are avoiding...
Some said it raises serious questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to diverge from the standard of care and reach for less-effective options that could expose their patients to more risks.
Voters across US decide future of abortion rights, passing measures in...
"Every victory counts, and every setback is a reminder of the work that remains to secure bodily autonomy for all Americans.”
A pregnant teenager died after trying to get care in three...
That is what many pregnant women are now facing in states with strict abortion bans, doctors and lawyers have told ProPublica.
A woman died after being told it would be a ‘crime’...
Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.